9 June 1851
“Steadfast” arrives with settlers.
9 June 1869
Earthquake damages many buildings including the stone (second) Town Hall.
9 June 1917
Sign of the Kiwi opens.
9 June 1937
Citizens War Memorial unveiled in Cathedral Square.
10 June 1935
John Drew and poet/typographer Dennis Glover founded Caxton Press to publish New Zealand literature. Most of the decade’s best writers were first published by the company.
11 June 1982
Sir Hamish Hay, Mayor of Christchurch since 1974, knighted in Queen’s Birthday honours.
12 June 1848
“Kemp’s Deed” signed by Ngai Tahu giving the New Zealand Company control of land from Kaiapoi to Otago.
15 June 1874
Canterbury College (University) opens. A subsequent public protest prevented its proposed buildings from being sited in what are now the Botanic Gardens.
chronological order from pre-European times to 1989.
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